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Report: Joel Embiid is Not an All-Star Starter
By Jim Adair
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According to ESPN’s Chris Haynes, Jimmy Butler has made the East All-Star team as a starter:
Chicago Bulls forward Jimmy Butler has been voted a starter for the Eastern Conference All-Stars, league sources tell ESPN.
— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) January 19, 2017
This should effectively end Joel Embiid’s hopes to be a starter, since Butler takes one of the three frontcourt spots and the other two undoubtedly belong to LeBron and Giannis. The official announcement is just over an hour from now.
UPDATE: Embiid lost on the player vote.
Player vote is what Embiid lost it on pic.twitter.com/5QmMRyjDCX
— NBCs The Slap (@NBCsTheSlap) January 20, 2017
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.